Josue Devera

'Josue Devera' (20 September 1777-23 May 1810) was a colonel of Spain during the Peninsular War.

Biography
Josue Devera was born in Madrid, Spain to a privileged family in 1777. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Spanish Army (1794) and fought in the Pyrenees against France. He retired from the cavalry after the Spanish made peace with France in 1795. Devera lived in the city as a worker until 1808, when France occupied Madrid. He raised the Cazadores Voluntarios de Madrid, a cavalry regiment of light cavalrymen, and set out to fight the French.

In the 1810 Battle of Ria de Cancha in Galicia, Devera attacked the French army as it closed in on the main Spanish army, leading his regiment and a few regiments of guerrilla units. Devera was killed in action as he led a cavalry charge on the French Fusiliers of Line.